FoxSports: Top 10 Players Most Likely to Improve (#7-Farmar)

For the Lakers to take the next step and be the perennial favorite in the West, Farmar has to take the starting point guard position from aging Derek Fisher and make it his.

He played in all 82 regular-season games and all 21 playoff games, so the 2006 first-round pick from UCLA got a full learning experience in 2007-08. But after averaging 9.1 points, 2.7 assists and 2.2 rebounds in 20.7 minutes a game during the regular season, he dipped to 5.7 points, 1.3 assists and 1.6 rebounds during the playoffs in 17.1 minutes. Even more suspect was seeing his .461 field-goal shooting during the regular season drop to .383.

That's not to ignore the fact that he's still only 21, but his speed, defensive ball pressure and superb 3-point shooting are vital to keeping the dogs off of Kobe Bryant and making the Lakers better overall. But coach Phil Jackson has to show enough confidence in him to start and run the halfcourt offense before he and the Lakers take it up a notch.

Hope Farmar takes a step forward not backward, also applies to Sasha, very intrigued if he has improved his game, I would love to see him become more than a spot up shooter.

"The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and differentsun."

"The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and differentsun."

God I hope you're being sarcastic. Do you not know anything about our players? Luke spent the summer after signing his contract running his restaurant. Sasha's a gym rat who says he's spending the summer working on his game. How exactly is that like Luke?

God I hope you're being sarcastic. Do you not know anything about our players? Luke spent the summer after signing his contract running his restaurant. Sasha's a gym rat who says he's spending the summer working on his game. How exactly is that like Luke?

agreed,

"The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and differentsun."